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A History of British Art

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

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A History of British Art

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

Andrew Graham-Dixon unveils the long-kept secret of Britain's rich and vital visual culture.

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Univ of California Press

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0520223764

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9780520223769

Renaissance

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Renaissance

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

A history of Renaissance art, placing the time in its historical and political context and arguing that the Renaissance grew out of the achievements of the medieval period.

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Univ of California Press

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0520223756

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9780520223752

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

You cannot stand underneath the masterwork that is the Sistine Chapel without considering the genius and painstaking work that went into its creation. Michelangelo Buonarroti never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel, though. Appointed by the temperamental Julius II, Michelangelo believed the suspiciously large-scale project to be a plot for failure conspired by his rivals and the "Warrior Pope." After all, Michelangelo was not a painter—he was a sculptor. The noble artist reluctantly took on the daunting task that would damage his neck, back, and eyes (if you have ever strained to admire the real thing, you know). Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story behind the famous painted ceiling over which the great artist painfully toiled for four long years. Linking Michelangelo's personal life to his work on the Sistine Chapel, Graham-Dixon describes Michelangelo's unique depiction of the Book of Genesis, tackles ambiguities in the work, and details the painstaking work that went into Michelangelo's magnificent creation. Complete with rich, full-color illustrations and Graham-Dixon's articulate narrative, Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel is an indispensable and significant piece of art criticism. It humanizes this heavenly masterpiece in a way that every art enthusiast, student, and professional can understand and appreciate.

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Simon and Schuster

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1626366470

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9781626366473

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year "This book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century." —Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book Review Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This commanding biography explores Caravaggio’s staggering artistic achievements, his volatile personal trajectory, and his tragic and mysterious death at age thirty-eight. Featuring more than eighty full-color reproductions of the artist’s best paintings, Caravaggio is a masterful profile of the mercurial painter.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393082938

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9780393082937

His Masters Reflection

Travels with John Polidori, Lord Byrons Doctor and Author of The Vampyre

By: Andrew Edwards,Suzanne Edwards

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Travels with John Polidori, Lord Byrons Doctor and Author of The Vampyre

By: Andrew Edwards,Suzanne Edwards

Qualifying as a doctor in 1815 at the tender age of nineteen, John Polidori was employed less than a year later by the poet, Lord Byron, as his travelling physician. The precocious medic was seemingly destined for a bright future that would enable him to combine his profession with a love of literature. In His Masters Reflection, the authors follow Polidoris footsteps as he accompanies Byron through Europe to Switzerland where they eventually meet the Shelleys and Claire Clairmont. Fulfilling his fathers prophecy, the fateful summer will prove to have a devastating impact on Polidoris life and legacy. Byrons keen wit and elevated status would leave the sensitive doctor feeling isolated and undervalued. Fuelled by acerbic comments from the poets friends, Byron finally releases Polidori from his contract, leaving the penniless medic to wander over the Alps on foot to Italy, his fathers homeland. Despite attempts at establishing himself as a doctor to the expatriate community, he has to admit defeat and return to England. Still harbouring literary ambitions, his one chance at fame is cruelly denied when The Vampyre, the story he had written in Geneva, is attributed to Byron. Gossip and retelling of events have cast Polidori in the role of a petulant plagiarist. Concussion from a riding accident deeply affected Polidoris temperament and behaviour, leaving questions surrounding his death, which history has recorded as suicide by prussic acid, despite the coroners verdict of visitation by God. The authors delve into his final years in an attempt to redress the balance. The handsome Polidori was more than just his masters reflection.

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Liverpool University Press

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1782845682

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9781782845683

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

In the tradition of John Richardson's Picasso, a commanding new biography of the Italian master's tumultuous life and mysterious death. For four hundred years Caravaggio's (1571-1610) staggering artistic achievements have thrilled viewers, yet his volatile personal trajectory-the murder of Ranuccio Tomasini, the doubt surrounding Caravaggio's sexuality, the chain of events that began with his imprisonment on Malta and ended with his premature death-has long confounded historians. In a bravura performance, Andrew Graham-Dixon delves into the original Italian sources, presenting fresh details about Caravaggio's sex life, his many crimes and public brawls, and the most convincing account yet published of the painter's tragic death at the age of thirty-eight. With illuminating readings of Caravaggio's infamous religious paintings, which often depict prostitutes and poor people, Graham-Dixon immerses readers in the world of Italy at the height of the Counter-Reformation and creates a masterful profile of the mercurial painter's life and work.

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W. W. Norton

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0393081494

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9780393081497

Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III

Representing the Counter-reformation Monarch at the End of the Thirty Years' War

By: Andrew H. Weaver

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Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III

Representing the Counter-reformation Monarch at the End of the Thirty Years' War

By: Andrew H. Weaver

Ferdinand III played a crucial role both in helping to end the Thirty Years' War and in re-establishing Habsburg sovereignty within his hereditary lands. Ferdinand's accomplishments came not through diplomacy or strong leadership but through a skillful manipulation of the arts. Drawing upon recent methodological approaches to the representation of other early modern monarchs as well as upon the theory of confessionalization, Andrew Weaver places the sacred vocal music composed by imperial musicians into the rich cultural, political, and religious contexts of mid-seventeenth-century Central Europe.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409421198

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9781409421191

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Simon and Schuster

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Renaissance

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Renaissance

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A history of Renaissance art, placing the time in its historical and political context and arguing that the Renaissance grew out of the achievements of the medieval period.

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A History of British Art

A History of British Art

Renaissance

Renaissance

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

His Masters Reflection

His Masters Reflection

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III

Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

Renaissance

Renaissance

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